perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!

[the mingo]

rain storm just rolled thru
wind - lightning - thunderboomers - downpour !
moving fast - too fast
was down by the river
saying Bring It On!
she's gone on over now
and the sky is still overcast
no sun allowed to heat everything
back up again
77 degrees down from a 100
Hell Yeah, Mongolia !

[WIREMAN]

Still humid
Temp better
Museum getting there
Visions of wire
Hobobun's too
Mongolia
Tibet
Nepal
Bhutan
Let me do a flyover

[the mingo]

heat is pleased of seal
almost sleeping to see it
am i to horse or wait on time?
or be it hell keen
the deer queen has pics of my toes
but i cannot heap her
to the history of street
see, time is not mine
or anybody's to steam in beheaded fashion
or mississippi what keep
it's your own geometry
or none

[WIREMAN]

At bottom
It's up
Grown to big fo
Me ears
Peruse the preamble
To be or not
To Mississippi
Abe said wha
God said butt
Sacrilege the Buddha
Butterfingers be thy shame
Billie billy Bo billy
Banana fanna fo fillie
Do re mi
Wha happened to her
Anyway
I think I'm in love
Can't eat
Can't write
Can wiggle tho
Fi fie fo
Or was that pho
Put some hot sauce
On it
Gosh darn it
Here I go again
Mongolia!!!

[the mingo]

Anyway
I think I'm in love
Can't eat
Can't write
Can wiggle tho
Fi fie fo
Or was that pho
Put some hot sauce
On it
Gosh darn it
Here I go again
Mongolia!!!

(o-o)

[WIREMAN]

Jam on me
Rain here
Temps in 60's
Ahhhhhhhhhh!
Diggin it
Festival in the streets
Soakin out here
Me in jojos bar
Sucking down screwdrivers
Lost in a day off
Tryin to find the words
Jam
Search
Whatever happened to it?
1stthought rules
Fresh mind
Protein fueled
Adrenaline rushed
But oozin slow
Lost in mind clamber
Rolling along
Rambling mindset
A good thang

[the mingo]

i'm just sitting here
writing & thinking about painting
or what can be done
with pine cones & driftwood
for - sculpture?
i don't know anymore
it is raining however
so that gives me
some hope

[WIREMAN]

Coolness
Writing chops
Axe handles
Begat
Axe handles
Tang to Beat
Surreal to Sappho
Poe to Robbins
Ikkyu thru sengai to ryokan
All the inbetweens
& everything that will come

[the mingo]

just noticed your new tagline
- cracked me right the hell up to hell & gone
Thx, Wireman -
that's gonna set the tone
for the whole hell of a grand day -

[WIREMAN]

Grasshopper
Performed that
Piece at least
100 times
Contained
Remember
Some u just know
Observations
People are a trip
Loud
Soft
Wary
Out there
Like that song
The piano man
10 am. Church bells ring
Sun shiny day
Up n Adam
Viva Mongolia!

[WIREMAN]

Home teams lose
Ugh!
Slow day at the bar
Ceiling fan whirling
Tonight
Some wash done
A little cleaning
Vegetarian dinner
Nice cool evening
Time to play some
Cigar box guitar

[the mingo]

trouble with direct experience
is having to use secondary
and even 3rd party methods
to translate it onto a page
or as my R.I.P. half-breed uncle would say,
"putting a multi-dimensional, even round, event
into 2 little dimensions"
what is lost in this process
is huge chunks of everything
we call the resultant mess poetry
and praise it -
our poverty knows no bounds
but it doesn't seem
to stop anybody

[WIREMAN]

Spearience
Shakin'
Earthquakin'
Thinkin' bout
Heading to key west
I dunno
Just wanna warm the
Coals
Change the art scene
Make Ernest Hemingway faces
And welded palm trees
A vision
Mind visions
Supposed to be chickens
Runnin' loose down there

[WIREMAN]

A different breed
Of chickens
Island bumpers
Straight from Cuba
This place ain't Hemingway
Packed little island
Ghost beneath
I feel it
The spook
The 90 miles beyond
Fidel beckoning
Come comrade
Fords, Chevys, plymouths with fins
Sharks swimming with Tommy guns
Che, immortalized
On tee shirts
Ferlinghetti at 96
Coney Island minds
Flirting with disaster
Mercurial
San Francisco a peaceful port
Little paisano oasis
Up and down hills
Lock that emergency brake
Eat that doggie at the diner
Float out over Alcatraz
Like the birdman you were
Meant to be, or not

[the mingo]

some folks got chickens
running round up here
i can take the world
on its face
but that don't mean
i believe it
been cutting wood
the past couple of days
mostly from the trunk
of a huge maple
can't get a good count on the rings
cause they went after this tree
with chainsaws from five directions
one section shows 112 rings my count approx
with another two feet of trunk to go
course ya couldn't count all the way there
cause the core is rot & gone
my best guess from what i can see
this thing began growing
sometime 'tween the revolution
& the sending out of Lewis & Clark
anyways, cutting wood
i like cutting wood